Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Messias Bolsonaro (21 March 1955-) was a Brazilian far-right politician who served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1991. In 2018, he was the Social Liberal Party of Brazil's presidential nominee, and he was compared to Donald Trump.

Biography
Jair Messias Bolsonaro was born in Glicerio, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1955 to parents of Italian descent, and he served in the Brazilian Army for seventeen years, reaching the rank of captain. In 1988, he was elected a Rio de Janeiro city councilor by the Christian Democratic Party of Brazil, and he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1991. He became known for his far-right and populist views, making sympathetic comments about the 1964-85 military dictatorship. In 2018, he abandoned the Social Christian Party of Brazil and joined the Social Liberal Party of Brazil, becoming its presidential nominee. On 6 September 2018, he was stabbed while campaigning in Juiz de Fora, but he survived his wounds.